Birthdays!!

This week Jeff and I are celebrating our 28th Birthdays. Jeff and I are exactly one day apart. Jeff married an older woman by 24 hours. Its fun sharing Birthdays because we get to have a fun long weekend. Today we are going to go wakeboarding with family and friends. Tomorrow we are going up to Dallas to go to (their) six flags. I want to wish Jeff a Happy Birthday and tell you that I love you very much. Thank you for being such a good husband, father, friend, and provider. Thank you for being patient with me and my weaknesses. You make me want to be a better person. I am so glad that I get to share my birthday with my best friend!!!

Brayden and Shoes!

The other night I came home to Brayden walking in my white heels. Daddy thought it was funny so he took some pictures. I love how Brayden has the shoes on the wrong feet. He even has the wrong toes between the thong on his left foot. I will have to slowly take away his bedtime bottle now that he is turning two. He is such a bottle baby. He will drink sippy cups but he prefers bottles when I put him down for bed.
Jeff and I are doing well. We are very grateful that we have been able to house sit for our good family friends who have moved to Utah. They have a beautiful custom home. This blessing has given us more time to figure out where in San Antonio we want to live. The Lord always finds ways to make things work out.

A Wonderful YW Evening!

For the past five months I have been working in Young Women's as the Personal Progress Leader. Along with being responsible for helping the girls complete their Personal Progress, I am in charge of putting together Young Women's Recognition. I really wanted this to be a special night for the girls who were receiving their medallions, and for the rest of the Young Women. We as leaders decided it would be nice to honor all the Young Women. I found these pretty austrian crystal earrings at Serendipity. To tie in the earrings my mother in law helped me write this quote. "We want you to always remember you are a Daughter of a King. We hope that you will wear these earrings as a reminder of who you are. They represent the jewels in your crown. They reflect many different colors which represent your YW Values. Please continue to be valiant and obedient to your Heavenly Father. If you do you will receive your crown in the Celestal Kindom." The quote of the night was "O, Be True to Who You Are... A Daughter of a King." I was very pleased with how the night went. I think all the Young Women felt special.

My friend Kristi had these runners made for our Relief Society Birthday Party last month. She decorated the party so pretty. I asked her if we could use the runners for YW Recognition. I love how the runners look so classy. I found the cute boxes at Ross. I love pink and black. I guess that's why my wedding was pink and black. For one of Jessica's projects she drew this cool picture of In N Out Burger. She grew up in California so she really misses their burgers since you can't get one in Texas. I miss them too.

Our Laurel President Lisa did a cool project where she gave every YW in the San Antonio Temple District little pieces of granite that were left over from the construction of the temple. She put the pieces in those little white envelopes with the San Antonio Temple sticker and ribbon on them. She also included a quote reminding the YW to not take the Temple For"Granite." This was her way of letting all 3000 YW feel they had a piece of the temple. I loved it.

Lindsey is my little Beehive who had set the goal of completing her Personal Progress before she turned 13, and she did it! I could not believe it. This girl is awesome. I can't wait to see what she will be like as a Laurel. For one of her projects she typed up 73 of her mother's recipes and put them in a book. Then she cooked some of the meals for women in the ward who just had babies over spring break. These girls are such an inspiration to me.

Happy Birthday Dad and New Calling!!

Yesterday was my Father's Birthday. I wish I could have been in Arizona to celebrate with my family. I guess now that I live 1000 miles away I will not be able to make it to all special family events. I want my Father to know how grateful I am for everything you have done for me these past 27 years. You have been a great teacher and example for me. I love you. Happy Birthday!!

Earlier this week Jeff got a call from the first counselor asking to meet with Jeff on Sunday. This morning Jeff and I made bets on what calling he might be receiving. To our surprise Jeff has been called to be the 1st counselor in the Young Men's. The new YM President just moved here and he is a professional ballet dancer! Chris has danced in the the movies Centerstage, Saved the Last Dance and Step Up. I can't wait to meet and talk with him. Jeff is super excited to be working with the youth again. He has been teaching Sunday School the past year so he already knows the Teachers he will be in working with. Now all Jeff and I got to do is figure out how to jugle Brayden on mutual nights since we both work with the youth. We will make it work.

(These pictures were taken at the San Antonio Temple last summer.)

YW Lesson

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to teach the young women. The topic I was given was preparing to be an eternal companion. I have known for a while I was going to be teaching this lesson, so it had been on my mind for quite sometime. I wanted to make sure that in some way I could help these girls understand the importance of preparing now to be a future wife and mother. Thanks to sugardoodle.net I was able to get great ideas on how to present this lesson. I started out by giving the girls a paper that said "resume for my future husband." I had the girls list qualities they wanted in their future husband. After a few minutes we shared our ideas. Then I had the girls cross out husband and write in wife. From there I explained that boys/men are looking for qualified women too, and that now is the time to prepare. We talked about how they can prepare physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and socially. I feel the lesson went well and I pray they can apply the things that they have learned into their lives. Ironically everytime I give a lesson or talk in church I always feel there is something the Lord feels I need to realize or learn as well. This lesson made me realize that even after we get married we still need to prepare and work on becoming a better person in all of these areas mentioned above . I know I have so many things I need to improve on, but I am grateful that Jeff can look past my weeknesses and see the potential I have. I feel the Lord gives us a marriage to help one another overcome our weeknesses so that we can return to him. I just wanted to let Jeff know how grateful I am for him. I appreciate all you do for me and our family. I love you.

Fun Toddler Pictures and Tagged by Melody!!

Brayden cried when I took this white chair away from him. I never should have taken it away because it was all down hill from there. Luckily we got a few good shots.

I had to bribe Brayden with gum to get him to take all these pictures in the brown outfit. He was still mad that I took his white chair away. Luckily Brayden's 2nd cousin (Dallin) was in good spirits for the pictures. I wonder how people can even get toddler twins to take pictures. TODDLERS!!

Well I have been tagged by Melody and some of these questions I have been tagged before on, so I am going to change some of them up.

5 years ago: I was 22, going to ASU West, working at Wells Fargo, teaching dance, and Jeff and I were broken up for the last time before we got engaged. It was a difficult time in my life but everything all worked out in the end.

5 cleaning jobs I do not mind doing: vacuuming, dusting, I enjoy organizing rooms, emptying the dishwasher, and making beds. For some reason I love making beds. Jeff's parents joke and say they always know when I have been over because all of their beds are made. I guess you could say I am very comfortable around my in-laws.

5 things I did today: slept in till 9:45 a.m. (thanks Jeff),went to church, gave my lesson in young women's, went home teaching with Jeff, cleaned up a strawberry mess on the floor done by Brayden.

5 places I have visited: Finland(my mother was born and raised there), Bahamas, Friday Harbor and Island near Seattle, WA (Free Willy was taped there), Orange County(I love it there), and Utah.

5 things you might not know about me: I love going to garage sales (its neat that someones trash is another persons treasure), I love watching HGTV, I enjoy painting walls, I have sprained my ankle once, and I hate using public restrooms.


5 things I am thankful for: My Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ, the gospel, my family and friends, my wonderful eternal companion, and my son Brayden. When I was pregnant with Brayden Jeff gave me a blessing and I was told by Heavenly Father to always show my gratitude for Brayden. I am so grateful for his sweet spirit being sent to Jeff and I. I feel some days Brayden teaches me more than I teach him. I am truly grateful for him.

Now I am going to tag Kerri, Raina, and Charla. Sorry girls if you have been tagged before.

Evidence of our hard work!

Well this is what the Fullers' have been working on for the past year. This is the first custom home we have built here in Texas. Jeff's Father used to build custom homes in Arizona so he has been teaching us all about the business. We are very grateful for the work and time he has given us. Everybody in Jeff's immediate family has contributed some type of work to this home, so it will be bitter sweet when we finally sell it. This house is 6400 sq. ft. It has 5 bedrooms, a den, living, family, and dining room, a loft, gameroom, and media room. It also has a four car garage. We still have to do some finishing touches on this house. We have started the second house so I will post pictures of it later. In Texas track homes are usually made of brick so people love stucco homes. Tile roofs are not common here. Most people have asphalt shingle roofs. Tile roofs are very expensive out here. It is so different from AZ.

These are the front doors. I love the rod iron!

(Powder bathroom)

We are going to let the buyers pick the flooring, so that is why you see concrete on the floor. We only put tile in the bathrooms.

(Dining Room)

This is the view you have as soon as you walk in the front doors.
It will look even better once the flooring is installed.

(Masterbath jucuzzi tub)

This shower has three showerheads!

(Guest bathroom)

This is the view from the upstairs gameroom. It is so green here in Texas.

Easter!!!

Jeff and I now have church at 1:00 p.m. We decided that we would make a big Easter breakfast so that after church we could relax and not have to worry about cooking a big dinner. Here's Brayden in his new Easter outfit. I love Brayden in blue in brown.My two handsome boys!
Brayden is usually very grumpy after church. I think it's because church is during his normal naptime. This is one of the typical faces he gives me when he is tired or upset. This picture was taken right after Jeff picked him up from nursery. We celebrated Easter Monday night with Jeff's Family. Jill made a good roast with potatoes, carrots, and homemade rolls. (This is one of my favorite meals). After dinner we had an Easter egg hunt for Brayden. Here is Brayden hunting for the eggs.

He found the egg with the jelly bean!!
Brayden loved this big Easter Bunny that Grandma Jill Had.

He loved the bunny so much he wanted to kiss her.


Here's Brayden gazing into the bunnies eyes.

Brayden kept kissing the bunny over and over which was great for pictures. He would kiss the bunny and then throw his arms up and say yeeaahh!! It was adorable. I do not know if you can tell but Brayden has an owee on the underneath part of his arm. He has had the owee for two weeks now and it has pretty much healed. I never figured out how he hurt himself but everytime Brayden notices his owee he starts whining as if it hurts bad. So we have to give his owee a kiss and say all better. Sometimes we have to repeat this process three times in a row to get him to stop complaining. I know this owee should not hurt anymore so I think he is complaining just to get attention. WOW I never thought a little boy could be such a drama queen or is it king?

Fun Spring Break!

Brayden trying on these sunglasses. I think he looks good in shades. Cool boys Brayden and cousin Dallin on the golf cart. Brayden and Dallin playing in the kitchen cabinets.

This week I was able to have some much needed fun. These past few months I have been working very hard with my mother-in-law remodeling her lake house. We have been painting, peeling wallpaper, organizing, picking out granite countertops, tile, paint colors, faucets, sinks, mirrors, light fixtures, etc. On top of the work we have been doing at her house we have been helping Jeff and my father-in-law with their custom home building business. It has been crazy but I have learned so much about homes. Because this past week was spring break Jill and I decided we would take a break from working. It was nice to have a few days where all we did was shop. My mission this week was to find Brayden a cute Easter outfit so I could get some pictures taken of him at JC Penny. I have not shopped for him in a long time so I really enjoyed the hunt for the perfect outfit. This mission was accomplished.

On Wednesday my good friend Alli drove out to see us in San Antonio. She was visiting her in-laws in Houston for the week and decided she would make the drive to San Antonio. I was so excited to spend time with her and her son Dallin. Brayden and Dallin are second cousins (Jake and Jeff are cousins) and they are exactly eight weeks apart. They were delivered in the same hospital room and Alli and I watched each other give birth. Brayden and Dallin I feel will always have a special connection. We shopped together, stayed up late watching American Idol, and watched our boys play. It was a lot of fun. On Thursday we took the boys to JC Penny and had their pictures taken. We got some good shots of them together and separate. I had so much fun this week. It reminded me of how much I miss so many of my friends and family in AZ. I am starting to make friends here in San Antonio and I feel with time my life will get easier here. I know the Lord has a purpose for us moving out here. If anything it has made me a stronger person.